Died on Sunday, 3rd August – Famous Deaths

03/08/2025

Loni Anderson, American actress (born 1945)

Loni Kaye Anderson was an American actress. She is best known for playing receptionist Jennifer Marlowe on the CBS sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati (1978–1982), which earned her nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and two Emmy Awards.

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03/08/2024

Yamini Krishnamurthy, Indian dancer (born 1940)

Mungara Yamini Krishnamurthy was an Indian classical dancer recognized for her contributions to Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi. She was a recipient of the Padma Shri (1968), Padma Bhushan (2001), Padma Vibhushan (2016) and Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1977).

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03/08/2023

Mark Margolis, American actor (born 1939)

Mark Margolis was an American actor best known for his portrayal of the character Hector Salamanca in Breaking Bad (2009–2011) and Better Call Saul (2016–2022). His performance in Breaking Bad was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2012.

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Bram Moolenaar, Dutch software engineer (born 1961)

Bram Moolenaar was a Dutch software engineer and activist who was the creator, maintainer, and benevolent dictator for life of Vim, a vi-derivative text editor. He advocated for ICCF Holland, a non-governmental organization supporting AIDS victims in Uganda, and used the popularity of Vim to encourage donations.

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03/08/2022

Jackie Walorski, American politician (born 1963)

Jacqueline Renae Walorski was an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Indiana's 2nd congressional district from 2013 until her death in 2022. She was a member of the Republican Party. Walorski served in the Indiana House of Representatives, representing Indiana's 21st district, from 2005 to 2010. In 2010, she won the Republican nomination for Indiana's 2nd congressional district, but narrowly lost the general election to Democratic incumbent Joe Donnelly. Walorski won the seat in 2012 after Donnelly vacated it to run for the U.S. Senate, and was reelected four times.

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03/08/2020

John Hume, Northern Irish politician (born 1937)

John Hume was an Irish nationalist politician in Northern Ireland and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. A founder and leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, Hume served in the Parliament of Northern Ireland; the Northern Ireland Assembly including, in 1974, its first power-sharing executive; the European Parliament and the United Kingdom Parliament. Seeking an accommodation between Irish nationalism and Ulster unionism, and soliciting American support, he was both critical of British government policy in Northern Ireland and opposed to the republican embrace of "armed struggle". In their 1998 citation, the Norwegian Nobel Committee recognised Hume as an architect of the Good Friday Agreement. For his own part, Hume wished to be remembered as having been, in his earlier years, a pioneer of the credit union movement.

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03/08/2015

Robert Conquest, English-American historian, poet, and academic (born 1917)

George Robert Acworth Conquest was a British and American historian, poet, and novelist. He was one of the West’s leading Sovietologists during the Cold War and was influential to both Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Conquest was also affiliated with the anticommunist Information Research Department, within the British Foreign Affairs Office.

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Mel Farr, American football player and businessman (born 1944)

Melvin Farr was an American professional football player and businessman.

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Coleen Gray, American actress (born 1922)

Coleen Gray was an American actress. She was best known for her roles in the films Nightmare Alley (1947), Red River (1948), and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956).

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Margot Loyola, Chilean singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1918)

Margot Loyola Palacios was a Chilean folklorist, musician, dancer, and teacher. She is considered one of the most influential musicians of Chile, pioneering folkloric research and transforming traditional music education and performance.

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Johanna Quandt, German businesswoman (born 1926)

Johanna Maria Quandt was a German billionaire businesswoman and the widow of Herbert Quandt, an industrialist and prominent Nazi. When she died in 2015 she was the 8th richest person in Germany, the 77th richest person in the world, and the 11th richest woman worldwide according to Forbes.

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Jef Murray, American artist and author (born 1960)

Jeffrey Patrick Murray was an American fantasy artist and author best known for his illustrations of works by J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. His paintings, illustrations, stories, poems, and essays appear regularly in Tolkien and Inklings-oriented publications and in Catholic publications worldwide. He was Artist-in-Residence for the St. Austin Review, and was artist guest of honor at the 2006 Gathering of the Fellowship in Toronto along with Ted Nasmith. He was nominated for an Imperishable Flame award in 2006, and his work has been exhibited in the USA, Canada, the UK, and the Netherlands.

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03/08/2014

Miangul Aurangzeb, Pakistani captain and politician, 19th Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (born 1928)

Miangul Aurangzeb was the last Wali Ahad of the former Swat State, the son of the last Wali of Swat, Miangul Jahan Zeb, and the son-in-law of the former president of Pakistan, Muhammad Ayub Khan. He served in the National Assembly of Pakistan and as governor of Balochistan and subsequently as governor of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

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Edward Clancy, Australian cardinal (born 1923)

Edward Bede Clancy AC was an Australian Catholic bishop and cardinal. He was the seventh Catholic Archbishop of Sydney from 1983 to 2001. He was made Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Vallicella in 1988.

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Dorothy Salisbury Davis, American author (born 1916)

Dorothy Margaret Salisbury Davis was an American crime fiction writer.

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Kenny Drew, Jr., American pianist and composer (born 1958)

Kenny Drew Jr. was an American jazz pianist. His music is known for its hard-swinging bluesy sound and large, two-handed rooty chords contrasting with fast runs. The son of jazz pianist Kenny Drew, he did not credit his father as an influence.

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Lydia Yu-Jose, Filipino political scientist and academic (born 1944)

Lydia N. Yu-Jose was a Filipino professor of political science and Japanese Studies at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. A graduate of Sophia University, she was best known for her research into the history of Japan–Philippines relations, as well as aiding in the development of Japanese studies in the Philippines as a separate academic discipline.

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03/08/2013

John Coombs, English-Monegasque race car driver and businessman (born 1922)

John Coombs was a British racing driver and racing team owner. After a driving career in various formulae, including a win in a minor Formula One race, he became a team owner in sports car racing and Formula Two. During the 1960s and 1970s, working closely with Tyrrell Racing, he ran cars for several top drivers of the time, including Jackie Stewart, Graham Hill and Jack Brabham.

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Jack English Hightower, American lawyer and politician (born 1926)

Jack English Hightower was a former Democratic U.S. representative from Texas's 13th congressional district, serving five terms from 1975 to 1985.

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Jack Hynes, Scottish-American soccer player and manager (born 1920)

John Hynes was an American soccer forward. He spent over twenty years in the American Soccer League, twice earning league MVP recognition. In 1949, he earned four caps with the United States men's national soccer team. In addition to playing professional soccer, Hynes was a New York City fireman from 1947 to 1975 and served in the U.S. Army in World War II. He is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame.

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03/08/2012

Frank Evans, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1921)

Frank Evans was a professional baseball player in the Negro leagues.

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Martin Fleischmann, Czech-English chemist and academic (born 1927)

Martin Fleischmann FRS was a British chemist who worked in electrochemistry. The premature announcement of his cold fusion research with Stanley Pons, regarding excess heat in heavy water, caused a media sensation and elicited skepticism and criticism from many in the scientific community.

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Paul McCracken, American economist and academic (born 1915)

Paul Winston McCracken was an American economist born in Richland, Iowa.

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John Pritchard, American basketball player (born 1927)

John David Pritchard was an American professional basketball player. Pritchard was selected in the seventh round of the 1949 BAA Draft by the St. Louis Bombers after a collegiate career at Drake. He played for the Waterloo Hawks for seven total games in 1949. He then spent time playing for the Washington Generals, the traveling exhibition team who always play, and lose to, the Harlem Globetrotters.

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George Shanard, American politician and agribusinessman (born 1926)

George Harris Shanard was an American politician and agribusinessman who served as a member of the South Dakota Senate from 1975 to 1992 and served as majority leader for the Republican Party from 1989 to 1992. He was inducted into the South Dakota Hall of Fame in 1999.

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03/08/2011

William Sleator, American author (born 1945)

William Warner Sleator III was an American science fiction author who wrote primarily young adult novels but also wrote for younger readers. His books typically deal with adolescents coming across a peculiar phenomenon related to an element of theoretical science, then trying to deal with the situation. The theme of family relationships, especially between siblings, is frequently intertwined with the science fiction plotline.

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Bubba Smith, American football player and actor (born 1945)

Charles Aaron "Bubba" Smith was an American professional football defensive end and actor. Smith played in the National Football League (NFL) for the Baltimore Colts, Oakland Raiders, and Houston Oilers.

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03/08/2010

Bobby Hebb, American singer-songwriter (born 1938)

Robert Alvin Von Hebb was an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter and musician, best known for his 1966 hit "Sunny".

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03/08/2009

Nikolaos Makarezos, Greek soldier and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (born 1919)

Nikolaos Makarezos was a Greek Army officer and one of the masterminds of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974.

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03/08/2008

Skip Caray, American sportscaster (born 1939)

Harry Christopher "Skip" Caray Jr. was an American sportscaster, best known for his long career as a radio and television play-by-play announcer for the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball. He was the son of baseball announcer Harry Caray, and the father of St. Louis Cardinals play-by-play announcer and former fellow Braves broadcaster Chip Caray; another son, Josh Caray, is the play-by-play announcer for the minor league Rocket City Trash Pandas.

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Erik Darling, American singer-songwriter (born 1933)

Erik Darling was an American singer-songwriter and a folk music artist. He was an important influence on the folk scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, dramatist and historian, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". His nonfiction work The Gulag Archipelago "amounted to a head-on challenge to the Soviet state" and sold tens of millions of copies.

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03/08/2007

John Gardner, English author (born 1926)

John Edmund Gardner was an English writer of spy and thriller novels. He is best known for his James Bond continuation novels, but also wrote a series of Boysie Oakes books and three novels containing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional villain, Professor Moriarty.

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Peter Thorup, Danish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1948)

Peter Eiberg Thorup was a Danish guitarist, singer, composer and record producer. He was one of the most important blues musicians in Denmark, and he was known outside his own country, when in the late 1960s he met Alexis Korner and the two formed the bands New Church, The Beefeaters, CCS, and later Snape.

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03/08/2006

Arthur Lee, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1945)

Arthur Taylor Lee was an American musician, singer and songwriter who rose to fame as the leader of the Los Angeles rock band Love. Love's 1967 album Forever Changes was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, and it is part of the National Recording Registry.

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Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-English soprano and actress (born 1915)

Dame Olga Maria Elisabeth Friederike Schwarzkopf, was a German-born Austro-British lyric soprano. She was among the foremost singers of lieder, and is renowned for her performances of Viennese operetta, as well as the operas of Mozart, Wagner and Richard Strauss. After retiring from the stage, she was a voice teacher internationally. She is considered one of the greatest sopranos of the 20th century.

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03/08/2005

Françoise d'Eaubonne, French author and poet (born 1920)

Françoise d'Eaubonne was a French author, labour rights activist, environmentalist, and feminist. Her 1974 book, Le Féminisme ou la mort, introduced the term ecofeminism. She co-founded the Front homosexuel d'action révolutionnaire, a homosexual revolutionary alliance in Paris.

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03/08/2004

Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer and painter (born 1908)

Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French humanist photographer, and also an artist. He was considered a master of candid photography, and was an early user of 35mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography and viewed capturing what he named the decisive moment as the essence of the very best pictures.

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03/08/2003

Roger Voudouris, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1954)

John Roger Voudouris was an American musician best known for his 1979 hit "Get Used to It".

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03/08/2001

Christopher Hewett, English actor and director (born 1922)

Christopher George Hewett was an English actor and theatre director best known for his role as Lynn Aloysius Belvedere on the ABC sitcom Mr. Belvedere.

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03/08/2000

Joann Lõssov, Estonian basketball player and coach (born 1921)

Joann Lõssov, also known as Ioann Fyodorovich Lysov, was an Estonian basketball player. Lõssov trained at VSS Kalev, in Tallinn. He was named MVP of the 1947 EuroBasket. Member of the Soviet Union basketball team in 1947–52, from 1949, the captain and points guard. After his career as a player, worked as the head coach of the Soviet Union women's team in 1953–58 and helped to organise special trainings of the Soviet Union team. Elected to the Hall of fame of Estonian basketball in 2010.

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03/08/1999

Rod Ansell, Australian hunter (born 1953)

Rodney William Ansell was an Australian cattle grazier and a buffalo hunter. Described to be from "the bush", Ansell became famous in 1977 after he was stranded in extremely remote country in the Northern Territory, and the story of his survival for 56 days with limited supplies became news headlines around the world. Consequently, he served as the inspiration for Paul Hogan's character in the 1986 film Crocodile Dundee. In 1999, he was killed in a shootout by policemen of the Northern Territory Police.

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Byron Farwell, American historian and author (born 1921)

Byron Edgar Farwell was an American military historian, biographer, and politician. He was the mayor of Hillsboro, Virginia, for three terms. He also worked for Chrysler, and was the author of 14 books and published articles in various national publications.

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03/08/1998

Alfred Schnittke, Russian composer and journalist (born 1934)

Alfred Garrievich Schnittke was a Soviet and Russian composer. Among the most performed and recorded composers of late 20th-century classical music, he is described by musicologist Ivan Moody as a "composer who was concerned in his music to depict the moral and spiritual struggles of contemporary man in [...] depth and detail."

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03/08/1997

Pietro Rizzuto, Italian-Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1934)

Pietro Rizzuto was an Italian-born Canadian politician.

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03/08/1996

Jørgen Garde, Danish admiral (born 1939)

Hans Jørgen Garde was a Danish admiral.

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03/08/1995

Ida Lupino, English-American actress and director (born 1918)

Ida Lupino was a British-American actress, director, writer, and producer. Throughout her 48-year career, she appeared in 59 films and directed eight, working primarily in the United States, where she became a citizen in 1948. She is widely regarded as the most prominent female filmmaker working in the 1950s during the Hollywood studio system. With her independent production company, she co-wrote and co-produced several social-message films and became the first woman to direct a film noir, The Hitch-Hiker, in 1953.

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Edward Whittemore, American soldier and author (born 1933)

Edward Payson Whittemore was an American novelist, the author of five novels written between 1974 and 1987, four of which comprised his Jerusalem Quartet series. Following a tour of service with the United States Marine Corps, he was worked as a case officer in the Central Intelligence Agency, stationed in Japan and Italy, between 1958 and 1967.

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03/08/1992

Wang Hongwen, Chinese labor activist and politician, member of the Gang of Four (born 1935)

Wang Hongwen was a Chinese politician who was the youngest member of the Gang of Four. He rose to prominence during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), after organizing the Shanghai People's Commune, to become one of the foremost members of national leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

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03/08/1983

Carolyn Jones, American actress (born 1930)

Carolyn Sue Jones was an American actress of television and film. She began her film career in the early 1950s and by the end of the decade, in 1958, had achieved recognition with a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Bachelor Party (1957) and, that same year, won a Laurel Award for Top Supporting Female Performance, as well as a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year–Actress for her turn in Marjorie Morningstar. Her film career continued for another 20 years. In 1964, Jones began playing the role of Morticia Addams in the black-and-white television sitcom The Addams Family.

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03/08/1979

Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)

Bertil Gotthard Ohlin was a Swedish economist and politician. He was a professor of economics at the Stockholm School of Economics from 1929 to 1965. He was also leader of the People's Party, a social-liberal party which at the time was the largest party in opposition to the governing Social Democratic Party, from 1944 to 1967. He served briefly as Minister of Commerce and Industry from 1944 to 1945 in the Swedish coalition government during World War II. He was President of the Nordic Council in 1959 and 1964.

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Angelos Terzakis, Greek author and playwright (born 1907)

Angelos Terzakis was a Greek writer of the "Generation of the '30s". He wrote short stories, novels and plays.

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03/08/1977

Makarios III, Cypriot archbishop and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Cyprus (born 1913)

Makarios III was a Greek Cypriot prelate and politician who served as Archbishop of the Church of Cyprus from 1950 to 1977 and as the first president of Cyprus between 1960 and July 1974, with a second term between December 1974 and 1977. He is widely regarded as the founding father or "Ethnarch" of the Republic of Cyprus, leading its transition from British colonial rule.

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Alfred Lunt, American actor and director (born 1892)

Alfred David Lunt was an American actor and director, best known for his long stage partnership with his wife, Lynn Fontanne, from the 1920s to 1960, co-starring in Broadway and West End productions. After their marriage, they nearly always appeared together. They became known as "the Lunts" and were celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic.

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03/08/1975

Andreas Embirikos, Greek poet and photographer (born 1901)

Andreas Embirikos was a Greek surrealist poet, writer, photographer, and one of the first Greek psychoanalysts. As a writer, he emerged from the Generation of the '30s and is considered one of the most important representatives of Greek surrealism. He studied psychoanalysis in France and was the first to practice it as a profession in Greece in the years 1935–1951. Out of his entire literary work, his first collection of poetry, titled Ypsikaminos, stands out as the first purely surrealist Greek text. Among his prose works, his bold erotic novel The Great Eastern was completed over a period of several decades becoming the lengthiest modern Greek novel. Described as Embirikos' "lifework", It was received with both praise and criticism for its libertine nature and highly erotic content. A large part of Embirikos' work was published well after his death.

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03/08/1974

Edgar Johan Kuusik, Estonian architect and interior designer (born 1888)

Edgar Johan Kuusik was an Estonian architect and furniture and interior designer.

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03/08/1973

Richard Marshall, American general (born 1895)

Major General Richard Jaquelin Marshall was a senior officer in the United States Army.

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03/08/1972

Giannis Papaioannou, Turkish-Greek composer (born 1913)

Giannis Papaioannou was a famous Greek musician and composer born in Kios, Ottoman Empire. In English his name is sometimes romanticized as Yannis, Ioannis or Yiannis. Most active in the 1940s, he wrote many songs, some of which are today considered classics of the rebetiko folk music style. These include: Pente Ellines Ston Adi, Kapetan Andreas Zeppo, Modistroula, Prin To Charama Monachos, and Fovamai Mi Se Chaso. His style retains much of the musical quality of the classical rebetika of the likes of Markos Vamvakaris, although the thematic content of the lyrics tends not to focus as much on the typically dark topics – drugs, death and prison – of earlier rebetika.

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03/08/1969

Alexander Mair, Australian politician, 26th Premier of New South Wales (born 1889)

Alexander Mair was an Australian politician who served as Premier of New South Wales from 5 August 1939 to 16 May 1941. Born in Melbourne, Mair worked in various businesses there before moving to Albury, New South Wales where he went on to be a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for fourteen years. In 1932, Mair was elected to the seat of Albury and was re-elected a further four times. He rose quickly through the cabinet of Bertram Stevens' United Australia Party government, becoming an Assistant Minister in April 1938, Minister for Labour and Industry in June and Colonial Treasurer in October.

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03/08/1968

Konstantin Rokossovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union during World War II (born 1896)

Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky was a Soviet and Polish general who served as a top commander in the Red Army during World War II and achieved the ranks of Marshal of the Soviet Union and Marshal of Poland. He also served as Defence Minister of Poland from 1949 to 1956.

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03/08/1966

Lenny Bruce, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1925)

Leonard Alfred Schneider, better known by his stage name Lenny Bruce, was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist. He was renowned for his open, free-wheeling, and critical style of comedy that combined satire, politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity. His 1964 conviction in an obscenity trial was followed by a posthumous pardon in 2003.

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03/08/1964

Flannery O'Connor, American short story writer and novelist (born 1925)

Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She wrote two novels and 31 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries.

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03/08/1963

Signe Salén, Swedish doctor (born 1871)

Sigrid Alfhild Maria "Signe" Salén was a Swedish doctor who was one of Sweden's first female physicians. She was known for specialising in treating venereal diseases as well as campaigning for the rights of female doctors.

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03/08/1961

Hilda Rix Nicholas, Australian artist (born 1884)

Hilda Rix Nicholas was an Australian artist. Born in the Victorian city of Ballarat, she studied under a leading Australian Impressionist, Frederick McCubbin, at the National Gallery of Victoria Art School from 1902 to 1905 and was an early member of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors. Following the death of her father in 1907, Rix, her only sibling Elsie and her mother travelled to Europe where she undertook further study, first in London and then Paris. Her teachers during the period included John Hassall, Richard Emil Miller and Théophile Steinlen.

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03/08/1959

Herb Byrne, Australian footballer (born 1887)

Herbert Richard Byrne, was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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03/08/1958

Peter Collins, English race car driver (born 1931)

Peter John Collins was a British racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1952 to 1958. Collins won three Formula One Grands Prix across seven seasons. In endurance racing, Collins won the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1958 with Ferrari.

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03/08/1954

Colette, French novelist and journalist (born 1873)

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, known mononymously as Colette or as Colette Willy, was a French author and woman of letters. She was also a mime, actress, and journalist. Colette is best known in the English-speaking world for her 1944 novella Gigi, which was the basis for the 1958 film and the 1973 stage production of the same name. Her short story collection The Tendrils of the Vine is also famous in France.

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03/08/1949

Ignotus, Hungarian poet and author (born 1869)

Hugó Veigelsberg was a Hungarian editor and writer who usually published under the pen name Ignotus. He was known for the lyric individuality of his poems, stories, and sociological works. In addition to "Ignotus", he also wrote under the pseudonyms "Dixi," "Pató Pál," and "Tar Lorincz".

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03/08/1943

Frumka Płotnicka, Polish resistance fighter during World War II (born 1914)

Frumka Płotnicka was a Polish resistance fighter during World War II; activist of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ŻOB) and member of the Labour Zionist organization Dror. She was one of the organizers of self-defence in the Warsaw Ghetto, and participant in the military preparations for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Following the liquidation of the Ghetto, Płotnicka relocated to the Dąbrowa Basin in southern Poland. On the advice of Mordechai Anielewicz, Płotnicka organized a local chapter of ŻOB in Będzin with the active participation of Józef and Bolesław Kożuch as well as Cwi (Tzvi) Brandes, and soon thereafter witnessed the murderous liquidation of both Sosnowiec and Będzin Ghettos by the German authorities.

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03/08/1942

Richard Willstätter, German-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1872)

Richard Martin Willstätter FRS(For) HFRSE was a German organic chemist whose study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll included, won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

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03/08/1936

Konstantin Konik, Estonian surgeon and politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Education (born 1873)

Konstantin Konik was an Estonian politician and surgeon who served as a member of the Estonian Salvation Committee.

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03/08/1929

Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (born 1851)

Emile Berliner was a German-American inventor and businessman who invented the lateral-cut flat disc record, also known as a "gramophone record," used with a gramophone. He founded the United States Gramophone Company in 1894.

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Thorstein Veblen, American economist and sociologist (born 1857)

Thorstein Bunde Veblen was an American economist and sociologist who, during his lifetime, emerged as a well-known critic of capitalism.

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03/08/1925

William Bruce, Australian cricketer (born 1864)

William Bruce was an Australian cricketer who played in 14 Test matches between 1885 and 1895. He became a lawyer, practising in Melbourne.

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03/08/1924

Joseph Conrad, British novelist (born 1857)

Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and – though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties – he became a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature.

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03/08/1922

Ture Malmgren, Swedish journalist and politician (born 1851)

Ture Robert Ferdinand Malmgren was a Swedish journalist, book publisher, and municipal politician. A prominent figure in his hometown of Uddevalla, Malmgren became a colorful and well-known part of the city's history through, among other things, his long-lasting ownership of the newspaper Bohusläningen, work in the local political scene, eccentric and extravagant lifestyle, and faux-medieval Tureborg Castle.

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03/08/1920

Peeter Süda, Estonian organist and composer (born 1883)

Peeter Süda was a father of the Estonian organ school, composer and an early collector of Estonian folksongs.

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03/08/1917

Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician and academic (born 1849)

Ferdinand Georg Frobenius was a German mathematician, best known for his contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, number theory, and to group theory. He is known for the famous determinantal identities, known as Frobenius–Stickelberger formulae, governing elliptic functions, and for developing the theory of biquadratic forms. He was also the first to introduce the notion of rational approximations of functions, and gave the first full proof for the Cayley–Hamilton theorem. He also lent his name to certain differential-geometric objects in modern mathematical physics, known as Frobenius manifolds.

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03/08/1916

Roger Casement, Irish poet and activist (born 1864)

Roger David Casement, known as Sir Roger Casement, CMG, between 1911 and 1916, was a diplomat and Irish nationalist executed by the United Kingdom for treason during World War I.

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03/08/1913

William Lyne, Australian politician, 13th Premier of New South Wales (born 1844)

Sir William John Lyne KCMG was an Australian politician who served as Premier of New South Wales from 1899 to 1901, and later as a federal cabinet minister under Edmund Barton and Alfred Deakin. He is best known as the subject of the so called "Hopetoun Blunder", unexpectedly being asked to serve as the first Prime Minister of Australia but proving unable to form a government.

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03/08/1894

George Inness, American painter (born 1825)

George Inness was an American landscape painter.

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03/08/1879

Joseph Severn, English painter (born 1793)

Joseph Severn was an English portrait and subject painter and a personal friend of the English poet John Keats. He exhibited portraits, Italian genre, literary and biblical subjects, and a selection of his paintings can today be found in some of the most important museums in London, including the National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum and Tate Britain.

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03/08/1877

William B. Ogden, American businessman and politician, 1st Mayor of Chicago (born 1805)

William Butler Ogden was an American politician and railroad executive who served as the first Mayor of Chicago. He was referred to as "the Astor of Chicago." He was, at one time, the city's richest citizen. He brought the Galena & Chicago Union RR out of insolvency and was its first president in 1847. He created the Chicago & North Western Railway from the failed remains of the Chicago, St.Paul, Fond du Lac and was its first president in 1859. He spearheaded the 1st transcontinental railroad as the Union Pacific and was its first president in 1862, although he relinquished that position due to poor health.

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03/08/1867

August Böckh, German historian and scholar (born 1785)

August Böckh was a German classical scholar and antiquarian.

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03/08/1866

Gábor Klauzál, Hungarian politician, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture (born 1804)

Gábor Klauzál de Szlavovicz was a Hungarian politician, who served as Minister of Agriculture, Industry and Trade during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 in the first government of Hungary. He studied in Szeged. He was a member of the National Assembly of Hungary from 1832 and served as one of the leaders of the liberal opposition on the Diet of 1843–44. He retired from politics in 1844 until the outbreak of the revolution.

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03/08/1857

Eugène Sue, French author and politician (born 1804)

Marie-Joseph "Eugène" Sue was a French novelist. He was one of several authors who popularized the genre of the serial novel in France with his very popular and widely imitated The Mysteries of Paris, which was published in a newspaper from 1842 to 1843.

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03/08/1839

Dorothea von Schlegel, German author and translator (born 1763)

Dorothea Friederike von Schlegel was a German novelist and translator.

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03/08/1835

Wenzel Müller, Austrian composer and conductor (born 1767)

Wenzel Müller was an Austrian composer and conductor. He is regarded as the most prolific opera composer of all time with his 166 operas.

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03/08/1805

Christopher Anstey, English author and poet (born 1724)

Christopher Anstey was an English poet who also wrote in Latin. After a period managing his family's estates, he moved permanently to Bath and died after a long public life there. His poem, The New Bath Guide, brought him to fame and began an easy satirical fashion that was influential throughout the second half of the 18th century. Later he wrote An Electoral Ball, another burlesque of Bath society that allowed him to develop and update certain themes in his earlier work. Among his Latin writing were translations and summaries based on both these poems; he was also joint author of one of the earliest Latin translations of Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, which went through several editions both in England and abroad.

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03/08/1797

Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, English field marshal and politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (born 1717)

Field Marshal Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, was a British Army officer and Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in the British Army. Amherst is credited as the architect of Britain's successful campaign to conquer the territory of New France during the Seven Years' War. Under his command, British forces captured the cities of Louisbourg, Quebec City and Montreal, as well as several major fortresses. He was also the first British governor general in the territories that eventually became Canada. Numerous places and streets are named after him, in both Canada and the United States.

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03/08/1792

Richard Arkwright, English engineer and businessman (born 1732)

Sir Richard Arkwright was an English inventor and a leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution. He is credited as the driving force behind the development of the spinning frame, known as the water frame after it was adapted to use water power; and he patented a rotary carding engine to convert raw cotton to 'cotton lap' prior to spinning. He was the first to develop factories housing both mechanised carding and spinning operations.

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03/08/1780

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French epistemologist and philosopher (born 1715)

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac was a French philosopher and Catholic priest who focused on psychology and the philosophy of the mind.

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03/08/1773

Stanisław Konarski, Polish poet and playwright (born 1700)

Stanisław Konarski, Sch.P. was a Polish pedagogue, educational reformer, political writer, poet, dramatist, Piarist priest and precursor of the Enlightenment in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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03/08/1761

Johann Matthias Gesner, German scholar and academic (born 1691)

Johann Matthias Gesner was a German classical scholar and schoolmaster.

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03/08/1721

Grinling Gibbons, Dutch-English sculptor and woodcarver (born 1648)

Grinling Gibbons was an Anglo-Dutch sculptor and wood carver known for his work in England, including Windsor Castle, the Royal Hospital Chelsea and Hampton Court Palace, St Paul's Cathedral and other London churches, Petworth House and other country houses, Trinity College, Oxford and Trinity College, Cambridge. Gibbons was born to English parents in Holland, where he was educated.

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03/08/1720

Anthonie Heinsius, Dutch politician (born 1641)

Anthonie Heinsius was a Dutch statesman who served as Grand Pensionary of Holland from 1689 to his death in 1720. Heinsius was an able negotiator and one of the greatest and most obstinate opponents of the expansionist policies of Louis XIV of France. He was one of the driving forces behind the anti-French coalitions of the Nine Years' War (1688–97) and the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14).

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03/08/1712

Joshua Barnes, English historian and scholar (born 1654)

Joshua Barnes, was an English scholar. His work Gerania; a New Discovery of a Little Sort of People, anciently discoursed of, called Pygmies (1675) was a utopian romance.

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03/08/1621

Guillaume du Vair, French lawyer and author (born 1556)

Guillaume du Vair was a French bishop, author, lawyer, Magistrate of the Parliament and Keeper of the Seals of France under French king Louis XIII.

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03/08/1604

Bernardino de Mendoza, Spanish commander and diplomat (born 1540)

Bernardino de Mendoza was a Spanish military commander, diplomat, and writer on military history and politics. He served Philip II as ambassador to London and as a spy, from which he was expelled for his involvement in the Babington Plot against Elizabeth I. During the War of the Three Henrys, he coordinated with the Catholic League and Henry, Duke of Guise against the Huguenots.

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03/08/1546

Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, Italian architect, designed the Apostolic Palace (born 1484)

Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, also known as Antonio Cordiani, was an Italian architect active during the Renaissance, mainly in Rome and the Papal States. He worked on the design of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City, and was also an engineer who restored several buildings. His success was greatly due to his contracts with renowned artists during his time. Sangallo died in Terni, Italy, and was buried in St. Peter’s Basilica.

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Étienne Dolet, French scholar and translator (born 1509)

Étienne Dolet was a French scholar, translator and printer. He was a controversial figure throughout his lifetime, which was buffeted by the opposing forces of the Renaissance and the French Inquisition. His early attacks upon the Inquisition and the municipal authorities of Toulouse, together with his later publications in Lyon, caused the French Inquisition to monitor his activities closely.

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03/08/1530

Francesco Ferruccio, Italian captain (born 1489)

Francesco Ferruccio was an Italian captain from Florence who fought in the Italian Wars.

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03/08/1527

Scaramuccia Trivulzio, Italian cardinal

Scaramuccia Trivulzio was a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was Bishop of Como in Italy, from 1508 to 1518. He was then Bishop of Piacenza, from 1519 to 1525.

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03/08/1460

James II, king of Scotland (born 1430)

James II was King of Scots from 1437 until his death in 1460. The eldest surviving son of James I of Scotland, he succeeded to the Scottish throne at the age of six, following the assassination of his father. The first Scottish monarch not to be crowned at Scone, James II's coronation took place at Holyrood Abbey in March 1437. After a reign characterised by struggles to maintain control of his kingdom, he was killed by an exploding cannon at Roxburgh Castle in 1460.

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03/08/1355

Bartholomew de Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh, English nobleman

Bartholomew Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh, called "the elder", was an English nobleman and soldier, a younger son of Robert Burghersh, 1st Baron Burghersh and Maud Badlesmere, sister of Bartholomew Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere. He was the father of Bartholomew Burghersh the younger.

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03/08/1003

At-Ta'i, Abbasid caliph (born 929)

Abu Bakr ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn al-Faḍl, better known by his regnal name al-Ṭāʾiʿ liʾllāh/biʾllāh, was the Abbasid caliph of Baghdad from 974 to his deposition in 991. He was in office during the domination of Iraq by the Shi'a Buyid dynasty, and as a result is generally considered a powerless figurehead under the thumb of the Buyid emirs. His tenure was also marked by strife between rival Buyid rulers and the frequent change of hands of Baghdad: al-Ta'i' himself was raised to the throne by a rebel Turkic general, Sabuktakin, who deposed al-Ta'i's father, al-Muti'. During periods of such strife, al-Ta'i' was able to exert some measure of political independence, but under stronger rulers he was sidelined, and was obliged to marry the daughters of the emirs Izz al-Dawla and Adud al-Dawla. Al-Ta'i's status suffered under Adud al-Dawla in particular, who turned to pre-Islamic Persian models for legitimacy, and relegated Iraq to the status of a simple province ruled from Fars. Al-Ta'i' was deposed on 22 November 991 by Baha al-Dawla, and replaced with his cousin, al-Qadir. He spent the rest of his days, until his death in 1003, confined to the caliphal palace.

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03/08/0979

Thietmar, margrave of Meissen

Thietmar (II) (c. 945 – 3 August 979) was Margrave of Meissen from about 976 until his death.

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03/08/0925

Cao, Chinese empress dowager

Empress Dowager Cao, formally, Empress Zhenjian, was a concubine to the late Tang dynasty warlord Li Keyong. She was the mother of his son, Li Cunxu, who went on to establish the Later Tang dynasty as its Emperor Zhuangzong. After the establishment of Later Tang, she was honored as empress dowager.

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03/08/0908

Burchard, duke of Thuringia

Burchard was the Duke of Thuringia from shortly after 892 until his death. He replaced Poppo as duke shortly after his appointment in 892, but the reasons for Poppo's leaving office are unknown. Burchard may have been a Swabian.

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Egino, duke of Thuringia

Egino was a count in East Franconia and Duke of Thuringia in the late 9th century. He was a Popponid, the younger brother of Henry of Franconia and Poppo of Thuringia. All three may have been sons or grandsons of Poppo of Grapfeld.

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Rudolf I, bishop of Würzburg

Rudolf I was the Bishop of Würzburg from 892 until his death. He was the youngest son of Udo of Neustria.

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